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On that Wire-Tapping Claim

Post-election communications of Donald Trump’s team were swept up in an “incidental collection” by intelligence agencies, a Republican lawmaker says.

Having had his claims that his communications were being monitored ridiculed by all and sundry, and the BBC telling us over and over that his accusations were unsubstantiated, we now find out that Trump was actually having his communications monitored.

Sure, his communications might be collected “incidentally”, but they have nonetheless been collected. That somebody is killed in the collateral damage of an air strike on a military target doesn’t mean they have been murdered in cold blood, but it does not make the person any less dead. Naturally, this story has disappeared from the BBC’s front page and is now buried in the US news section. The Narrative must be maintained, and truth and impartiality be damned.

Surely the whole point of the fake fuss about Russians is that it was the excuse for “monitoring” Trump? I really would rather believe that the US Securitate are sly crooks than that they are stupid hysterics. Though I suppose the two categories aren’t mutually exclusive.

Trump claimed unambiguously that it was Obama who was targeting him with surveillance. How is this even remotely the same thing?
There’s clearly a narrative being desperately defended here, but I don’t think it’s the one you think it is.

I do not for one second believe that Obama ordered anything specific related to surveillance on Trump or his associated parties.

Oh, so you are agreed that Trump’s “wiretapping” claims are not to be taken seriously then. Or is was he uttering one of those postmodernist literal-falsehoods-that-convey-deeper-truths kind of things?